They’re not up there yet.

He was already managing an audience on the second day, and I’ve watched two thousand people grieve, and I have never once seen that.”

Part Four: The Twelve Years

Emily met Nathan Brooks when she was twenty-four and he was twenty-eight, at a fundraiser her firm had bought a table at.

Margaret liked him for the first three years.

She has never pretended otherwise, and she made herself say it out loud in court, under oath, when a defense attorney tried to build a case that she had hated her son-in-law from the beginning.